Book Awards & Distinctions
for Matthew Trueman
15 Total Book Awards
If You Take Away the Otter (5)

ALSC Notable Children's Books, 1995-2025
Commended, 2021

Cook Prize, 2012-2025
Honor, 2021

Orbis Pictus Award, 2000-2025
Honor, 2021

Outstanding Science Trade Books, 2005-2025
Commended, 2021
Out of This World: Star-Studded Haiku (5)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2023

Children’s Favorites Award, 2015-2024
Selection, 2023

Librarian Favorites Award, 2023-2024
Selection, 2023

Notable Children’s Books in the Language Arts Award, 1997-2025
Selection, 2023

Notable Poetry and Verse Novels, 2011-2025
Selection, 2023
In the Past: From Trilobites to Dinosaurs to Mammoths in More Than 500 Million Years (3)

ALSC Notable Children's Books, 1995-2025
Commended, 2019

Lasting Connections, 2000 - 2020
Selection, 2018

Notable Poetry and Verse Novels, 2011-2025
Selection, 2019
Hippos Are Huge! (1)
Simon and the Bear: A Hanukkah Tale (1)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2015